Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/40] xenner: kernel: 64-bit files

[Alexander Graf]

On 01.11.2010, at 15:02, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> On 11/01/2010 02:00 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Alexander Graf<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>   
>>> On 01.11.2010, at 11:44, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> 
>>>     
>>>> On 11/01/2010 10:01 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> This patch adds various header files required for the xenner kernel on 64 
>>>>> bit
>>>>> systems.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf<address@hidden>
>>>>> 
>>>>>         
>>>> I think it might make more sense to put this on a separate git.qemu.org 
>>>> repository and then use a submodule in roms/.
>>>>       
>>> The main reason why I wanted to have it fully in the qemu tree is so that 
>>> we can guarantee the qemu<->xenner interface is 100% private. I'm not sure 
>>> how much it'll be in a flux, but I don't want to go through the hassle of 
>>> defining stable ABIs where we don't have to :)
>>>     
>> How is this different from SeaBIOS or OpenBIOS, both use fw_cfg
>> interface?
> 
> At least with SeaBIOS, we don't provide a stable ABI.  That's why we ship a 
> specific version in roms/.

So if we can assume that the interface is 100% internal and can break at any 
time and there's no guarantee that a newer version of qemu works with an older 
version of xenner or vice versa, I'm perfectly fine in making it its own 
project :)


Alex